Instructor: Kristin Scott Office Hours: By Appointment E-Mail: Class Blog: http://nclc249.wordpress.com Class Wiki: http://nclc249fall09.pbworks.com/ Class Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ncc249 See Course Description Weekly Schedule The weekly schedule functions as your day-by-day guide to this learning community. It itemizes your assignments and their due dates and your weekly preparatory work for class meetings. The online version includes links to online readings. Please, however, check the blog schedule regularly (if there is a change in the schedule, the course blog will reflect the most recent updates)! January 26th: Introduction to course and digital literacy February 2nd: Digital Literacy & the Information R/evolution Assigned readings: February 9th: Internet Literacy & the Information R/evolution continued . . . Assigned readings: - Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic, July/August, 2008.
- Bowman, James. “Is Stupid Making Us Google?” The New Atlantis, Number 21, Summer 2008.
- Sherry Turkle, “Can You Hear Me Now?” Forbes (May 5, 2007)
- Watch: A Vision of Students Today & Information R/evolution
- Yoffe, Emily. “Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And Why that’s dangerous.” Slate, August 12, 2009.
February 16th: Web 2.0 & Digital Literacy – Debates on Reading Assigned readings: - O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0?”
- Watch: Web 2.0 & Web 2.0 … The Machine is Watching Us
- NEA: “To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence”
- Mitoko Rich, "Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading?" New York Times Book Review, July 27 2008.
- Levy, Steven. “The Future of Reading,” Newsweek, Nov. 17, 2007. (on BB)
- Weisberg, Jacob. “Curling Up with A Good Screen,” Newsweek, Mar 21, 2009.
February 23rd: “Collective Intelligence” and “Convergence” Assigned readings: - Mosco, Vincent. “Brand New World? Globalization, Cyberspace, and the Politics of Convergence (Key Note Address) (on BB).
- Langlois, Ganaele and Greg Elmer, “Wikipedia leeches? The promotion of traffic through a collaborative web format” (on BB).
- Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Medias Collide, Introduction (on BB).
March 2nd: Social Networking: The Good, the Bad; the Hash and Tag Assigned readings: March 9th: Open-Source / P2P File Sharing Assigned readings: March 16th: SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS March 23rd: Professor is at conference in Chicago; NO CLASS - work on group peer teaching projects. March 30th: Fandom / Digital Mashing Guest lecturer: Sara Marie Massee, Cultural Studies, GMU, on fandom and digital mashing. Assigned readings: - Russo: "User-Penetrated Content: Fan Video in the Age of Convergence" (on Blackboard)
- Coppa: "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness" (on Blackboard)
- De Kosnik: "Should Fan Fiction Be Free?" (on Blackboard)
- Jenkins: "How to Watch A Fan Vid"
April 6th: Digital Revolutions & Smart Mobs Assigned readings: - Morozov, Evgeny, “Think Again Twitter,” Foreign Policy, August 6, 2009.
- Harris, Leslie. “Online Activism Isn’t Dead,” Center For Democracy & Technology, July 2, 2009.
- Nicholson, Judith A. “Flash! Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity,” Fibreculture Journal, Issue 6.
- Stöcker, Christian, Carolin Neumann, and Thorsten Dörting, “Ahmadinejad’s Fear of the Internet,” Spiegel Online International, June 18, 2009.
- Browse through the DigiActive: A World of Digital Activists web site.
- “Twitter’s Role in the Iranian Revolution” June 16, 2009
- Morozov, Evgeny. “Iran Elections: A Twitter Revolution?” June 17, 2009
- “WikiLeaks” & “Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks”
April 13th: MMORPGs / WoW! Guest Lecturer: Dr. Douglas Eyman, Department of English, on World of Warcraft Assigned readings: Experiential Learning Projects due; Groups will present their projects (just the actual online published video, powerpoint or FB page published; no actual "presentation" by group) April 20th: Peer Teaching April 27th: Peer Teaching May 4th: Peer Teaching May 8th: FINAL REFLECTION PAPERS DUE by midnight email! |
